15 NOV - 5 DEC 2021
ONSITE & ONLINE

Women

Parallel

Onsite
Online
Synopsis

Women's bodies lying on the ground, entwining with their surroundings, breastfeeding, connecting with the ground... Carla Simón's first short, shot in 16 mm in the Californian forests, is an experimental exercise with echoes of avant-garde early-20th-century filmmaking.

Bio/Filmo

Carla Simón (Barcelona, 1986) studied at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of California. She was awarded a scholarship to study an MA at the London Film School. Her debut feature, Estiu 1993 (2017), premiered at the Berlinale, where it won the Best First Film Award.
Marco Businaro met Carla Simón at the University of California, where they made the experimental short Lovers (2010).